Voter purges
By: Myrna Pérez
Contributors: Brennan Center for Justice
Publisher: Brennan Center for Justice
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Voting registers; Election officials; Corrupt practices; Suffrage
Description: Voter registration lists, also called voter rolls, are the gateway to voting. A citizen typically cannot cast a vote that will count unless her name appears on the voter registration rolls. Yet state and local officials regularly remove--or "purge"--citizens from voter rolls. In fact, thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported purging more than 13 million voters from registration rolls between 2004 and 2006. Purges, if done properly, are an important way to ensure that voter rolls are dependable, accurate, and up-to-date. Precise and carefully conducted purges can remove duplicate names, and people who have moved, died, or are otherwise ineligible.

This report provides a systematic examination of voter purging in the United States, an often controversial practice of removing voters from registration lists in order to update state registration rolls.
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